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Published on
September 9, 2009 in
News.
- The Last Wheel of Time book is going to be continued, in three parts, and the first part will be released a week earlier.
- Kentucky Fried Dinosaur anyone? Hans Larsson, a Canadian researcher, hopes to bring back dinosaur traits by flipping genetic switches in chickens. While this could lead to hatching live prehistoric creatures, there are no plans for it now, due to practical and ethical reasons.
- Governator Schwarzenegger has announced via Twitter that he does still have the Conan sword, and that its on display in his office. Then he muttered something about crushing the budget and driving it before him.
- There is a twilight sex toy called the Vamp, it does sparkle, it does retain cold for that authentic experienced. This has led some to declare that “sparkle cocked” is the new “nuked the fridge”.
- The first Farscape comic is available in todays issue of Previews, Diamond Distributors catalog. Fan support of the miniseries is credited with the ongoing success.
- There is a black hole at the heart of the M87 galaxy, and new analysis puts its mass at the equivalent of 6.4 billion suns, twice as large as originally predicted. If this is true, its massive enough for our radio astronomy techiniques.
- GI Joe may have quickly tumbled from the charts in America, but its the number one movie internationally, and has made over over $91 million internationally nearly matching the 98 million domestic. This has led to Paramount virtually guaranteeing a sequel.
- In Minneapolis, a legendary bar died, and in its place rose an undead creation, “Donny Dirks Zombie Den”. The zombie themed bar has been described as classy kitsch and the bartenders dress like Shaun of the Dead.
- David Tennant is leaving Dr Who, but very few people know how. The BBC kept the non-essential cast from seeing the full script. The actors left out said they understood and it makes it more exciting for them.
- Amino acids, some of the building blocks of life, have been found on a comet called Wild 2.
- A paper published in the Forensic Science International claims that DNA evidence could easily by fabricated by a biology undergraduate. There are some ways to determine whether its been faked, but most labs don’t take such steps.
- A third X-Files film is tenatively being prepared for shooting to take place by 2012. It has not yet been decided whether its a reboot or not.
- Robert Downey Jr is in talks to play Lestat in the next adaptation of Anne Rices vampire Chronicles.
- Sony Pictures is debating rebooting the Spiderman franchise if the original cast doesn’t sign on for 5 and 6 as the scripts have already been laid out.
- She’s only a halfblood! Actress Emma Watson’s distant relative was Joan Playle of Essex County, England, an English woman convicted of witchcraft in 1592.
- Jericho…won’t…die! It’s been cancelled twice, but now has a comic book season coming out, and talks of a two hour movie are still on the table.
- After thirty years of talking about it, it’s been announced that original Alien director Ridley Scott will be back for the new entry in the franchise.
- Blizz Con happened, Monk was announced for Diablo 3, New Expansion for WoW called Cataclysm, Starcraft 2 still will not have LAN support.
Published on
August 26, 2009 in
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- The Wolverine prequel raked in 87 million opening weekend and is getting a sequel. The next chapter in Wolverines life will follow the Japan story arc established in the comic.
- Actor Dom Deluise passed away in his sleep last night, he was 75.
- The Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas is slowly reopening. The entertainment plaza shut down last year, but due to the resurgence in Trekkies, it will see new life, starting this week just in time for the movie debut. It will open in stages, becoming fully active in 2010.
- Majel Rodenberry, late widow to Gene Rodenberry, has established a 4 million dollar trust fund for her dogs. The money comes partly from her voice work on the Star Trek light dimmer.
- 30 Days Of Night director David Slade is learning the fine art of back peddling. He signed on to direct the Twilight sequel, after admitting in an interview that he wouldn’t see Twilight at gun-point. Now his tune is “Of course, I have since seen the movie and read the books and was quickly consumed with the rich storytelling and the beautifully honest characters that Stephenie Meyer created.”
- Two physicists have published an academic paper where they demonstrate, by virtue of geometric progression, that vampires could not exist, since they would almost immediately deplete their entire food supply (a.k.a, all of us).
- Hugh Jackman is staying with comic books for his next project: an adaptation of a graphic novel by the creator of Earthworm Jim. Jackman is teaming with Disney for a movie version of Ghostopolis, an upcoming graphic novel by Doug Tennapel that centers around a man who spent his life sending ghosts back to the afterlife having to rescue a living child from there, instead.
- Chuck is still on the NBC bubble for next season. The shows fate has yet to be undecided due to the tragic sudden death of an NBC executive on the set of a new pilot. The death has caused several delays in announcing next seasons schedules.
- Warners have picked up the rights to adapt Death Note, Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s suspenseful 12 volume series about a teenager who ends up in possession of a notebook that allows him to murder anyone anywhere in the world, as long as he has seen them and knows their real name, according to Variety, and are clearly looking at the potential for a franchise; the movie will, apparently, only adapt the first quarter of the series.
- Yesterday was Star Wars Day, happy belated May the Fourth be With You.
Published on
April 22, 2009 in
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- The Guardian newspaper has reported that author J. G. Ballard has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. His agent, Margaret Hanbury, announced that Ballard died on the weekend. He was 78.
- Chris Pine wrote to his Star Trek predecessor William Shatner to make peace after hearing about bad blood among the studio bosses and the original Kirk. “I wrote William Shatner a letter and explained who I was because I heard there was bad blood between him and the studio. I said, ‘I’m just an actor who happened to get a role that happened to be James T. Kirk, and I’m not trying to usurp your status or anything’. He replied, ‘Thank you very much for the letter. I wish you the best of luck.’ I have it on my fridge.”
- It has also been revealed that JJ Abrams first choice before Chris Pine was Matt Damon.
- A Dune “reboot” may be in the works thanks to Hancock director Peter Berg and Fighting producer Kevin Misher. The work is still in the writing stage but already the team is scoping actors and locations.
- Pushing Daisies has gotten a 12 issue order from DC Comics. The canceled Emmy-Nominated TV show about a pie maker with the power of limited resurrection, will itself see new life this fall. There is also some speculation about a Comic-Con giveaway as a preview comic was a giveaway in 2007 before the show debuted.
- Zac Efron is looking to bring Luke Skywalker to the small screen after toying around with Star Wars props at George Lucas’ California mansion. The High School Musical star filmed scenes for his new movie 17 Again at Lucas’ museum-like home, Skywalker Ranch, and now he’s begging for a leading role in his Star Wars TV series.
- Veteran actor Graham Greene has joined the cast of the Twilight sequel, New Moon. The Canadian performer appears as Harry Clearwater, an old friend of Bella’s father and a Quileute tribal leader. Greene appeared in the films: Dances with Wolves, The Green Mile, Die Hard With a Vengeance, and the TV show, Northern Exposure.
- The Warner Bros.-based horror label Dark Castle has picked up rights to Devil’s Due graphic novel The Nye Incidents, from sci-fi and horror novelist Whitley Strieber. Todd Lincoln will direct. Inspired by true events, the comic book revolves around a medical examiner on the hunt of a killer of alien abductees.
- Hostel director Eli Roth has discussed two of his upcoming projects. The first was an unnamed project that he didn’t give too many details on but said it will be a huge sci fi piece in the theme of Cloverfield and Transformers, lots of action, lots of explosions. He also discussed his “Thanksgiving” project, first seen originally as a fake trailer in 2007′s Grindhouse (1, 2). Roth boldly claimed: “I want to make the highest body count slasher film I can.”
- Constantine 2 is still in the makes. Producer Lauren Shuler Donner commented on the potential for a Constantine sequel, remarking “Looks very good. Thinking about it. Looking for a writer.”
- “Syfy” and Will Smith are going to make supernatural crime-procedural magic together. Their first collaboration is a TV movie called Unfinished Business, and focuses in on a cop who can see the memories of the deceased. It will air as a two-hour movie, and it could lead to an ongoing series.
- Online game publisher NCsoft has been Steamed, with all of its online titles available today for purchase and play via Valve’s Steam service. All current NCsoft titles should be available via the Steam service today, from the recently released City of Heroes Architect Edition to the Guild Wars series. This also covers upcoming NCsoft games, including the eagerly anticipated Aion: The Tower of Eternity.
- Online store ThinkGeek is selling new Dreamcasts in the box for $99.
- Bethesda has announced that a new Fallout title, Fallout: New Vegas (note the lack of a number, we’ll get to that later), will be released next year for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. Bethesda is not developing the title. Instead, Obsidian Entertainment, the studio behind Knights of the Old Republic 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2 (and its expansions), will be working on New Vegas.
- 4 edition D&D’s Arcane Power just came out.
Published on
April 15, 2009 in
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- NASA bypassed all voting and chose Tranquility as the new Node name. They are instead naming a treadmill after Colbert.
- John Sotos, an inspiration and consultant for House, M.D., wants to test Lincoln’s DNA for a rare genetic cancer syndrome called Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia 2B.
- The new Star Trek movie’s release date has been sped up to Thursday, May 7th, at 7pm. Not a huge change, but nice.
- A funeral supply store is now selling Star Trek photon torpedo coffins and Star Trek urns. You can find them at eternalimage.net.
- Area 51 has been declassified. The unidentified flying objects have been identified as experimental planes under the codename OXCART.
- Dan Aykroyd has vowed to sign Sigourney Weaver to the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel.
- Director/Producer McG is trying, but so far failing, to get Ah-nold to cameo in Terminator Salvation.
- Disney is denying rumors that Tron 2′s budget is rising over 300 million.
- Writer Declan O’Brian has optioned Little Shop of Horrors and says, “I have a take on it you’re not going to expect.” If there’s no singing piranha plant or at least a Mario reference, I’m not interested.
- Universal Studios has confirmed a 5th installment of The Fast and the Furious.
- Joss Whedon evaded the pressing issue of who would win: Buffy vs. River Tam. All he would say that while Buffy is stronger, River is programmed to kill.
- IMDB has reported Matthew Perry is starring in the two-part finale of Lost. The actor had previously stated it was a dream of his to join the island.
- The blaster gun used by Harrison Ford in Blade Runner is set to be auctioned. This so-called holy grail of Sci-Fi weapons is expected to go for over $100,000.
- Joss Whedon still has a small glimmer of hope for a second season of Dollhouse, despite Fox not even airing episode 13 domestically. Episode 13 stars Felicia Day of Dr. Horrible infamy as a post-apocalyptic fighter girl.
- The crew for The Sarah Connor Chronicles also claims they’re not dead yet and point out that the people claiming so did the same thing last season.
Published on
April 8, 2009 in
News.
- Michael Myers will be maskless for more than 70% of the new Rob Zombie Halloween film. Towards the end of the film, Myers wears a new mask which makeup artist Wayne Toth describes as “a lot different from any of [the masks] we’ve seen. People are going to be surprised when they see it. It’s going to thrown the Myers fans for a loop.”
- In the product tie in build up before the new movie releases, Urban Collector has released 3 new wall murals for Star Trek: The Original Series. Taken from the original show, you can make your room look like the bridge, have the crew watch over you, or watch the Enterprise flying through space.
- The man directing the theatrical reboot of Stephen King’s It, Dave Kajganich, has explained his desire to be faithful to King’s book as well as maintain its R-rated material. “I plan to be very protective of the book. The reality, though, is that WB wants to do this as a single film, so I will have to kill a few darlings to make that happen. You have my promise, though, that I will do this with the utmost humility and respect for King’s work.”
- A star of the Harry Potter films has been arrested after cops found a £2,000 cannabis farm in his bedroom. Drug squad officers swooped on 19-year-old Jamie Waylett, famed as bullying Hogwarts School pupil Vincent Crabbe in the wizard movies, after a tip-off.
- After spending the better part of the last six years directing the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, Gore Verbinski has informed Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer that he will not helm a fourth installment that’s expected to set sail in 2010 with Johnny Depp back as Captain Jack Sparrow. Verbinski will instead focus on other projects that include “Bioshock,” a Universal Pictures adaptation of the bestselling video game that has a John Logan script.
- A theater full of Trek fans showed up in Austin, Texas, thinking they were going to see a new print of the classic Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and 10 minutes of Abrams’ reboot, but Leonard Nimoy shocked the house by announcing they would in fact see the entire new movie just hours before it made its international debut in Sydney. The early fan reviews on Twitter are running almost entirely positive so far.
- A 24-year-old man shot and killed himself at the Regal Cinemas in Eugene, Oregon during a late night screening of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen. The yet-to-be-named man was seated in the back corner of the theater. Police were called after patrons heard a loud “popping sound” behind them, and reported it to the theater managers. The screening was stopped and ticket purchases were refunded.
- Watchmen star Jackie Earle Haley has signed on to play Freddy Krueger in New Line’s forthcoming The Nightmare on Elm Street reboot. The actor, who received an Oscar nomination for his role as a sex offender in 2006′s Little Children, will take on the part famously originated by Robert Englund when cameras roll on the franchise’s ninth film, titled A Nightmare on Elm Street, on May 5 in Chicago.
- Michael Bay has claimed that its too soon to decide, but he thinks 3D movies might be a gimmick. He dismissed the latest trend when a fan asked him if he would be shooting future Transformers installments in 3d. Bay claimed his style was too aggressive for 3D cameras.
- Red Dwarf star Craig Charles has spoken out to say that the cast are feeling immense ‘pressure’ to pull off the TV comeback of the decade. The resurrection of the loved BBC sci-fi show has sparked massive worldwide interest and fever pitch anticipation.
- Michael Bay introduced RC, the pink female Transformer, just so he can kill her off.